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Slow start cost Mavs during 108-102 loss to Rockets

At halftime of Thursday’s game between the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets, the ManiAACs and D-Town Crew put on a magnificent rendition of Michael Jackson’s Grammy award winning song, Thriller.

Unfortunately for the Mavs, for most of the night the game itself must have felt like a nightmare.

The Rockets got too many easy opportunity baskets and too many offensive rebounds, then held off a furious rally by the Mavs before getting out of American Airlines Center with a 108-102 victory.

This was the first of a five-game home stand for the Mavs (3-2) that resumes Sunday a 6:30 p.